If you do go into the re-done "slab square" on a sunny day, please take your sunglasses. The stone is dazzlingly bright. However, I'm sure it will soon be toned down by chewing-gum and the other nasties that those idiots, who would remove Nottingham's "Queen of the Midlands" crown, delight in depositing in her streets. I actually work in Nottingham now, and the rear entrance to our building is constantly plagued by human excrement, broken bottles and the sweet smell of urine. As I walk up Parliament Street in the morning I regularly have to play "dodge the vomit" - yuk! When I retire I have vowed to go into the city as rarely as possible. It's not the place it was (end of rant).
To get back on track (a good pun if we were talking about trams, which we're not), certainly the trolleybuses lasted into the 60s - the last one ran in 1966. I was born in 1954, and I saw them when we went to Nottingham. I well remember sitting in the Kardomah coffee house at the junction of King Street and Queen Street watching the conductors changing the trolley arms from one set of wires to another when they hadn't followed the desired route. I also remember standing at a stop on the Mansfield Road near the Children's Hospital and persuading my dad to let a motorbus go past so that we could ride a trolleybus instead.
However, as it was I who started this thread, please may I repeat my original question. Does anyone know of a photograph of number 72/372 in service?
